Lanciani, Rodolfo Amedeo, 1847-1929 · Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin company · leaf 56
tion of Rome is beingerected. Here a mass of concrete was found, and insideof it a recess lined with bricks, and inside the recess,in the core of the concrete, one of the most beautifulsarcophagi I have ever seen, a masterpiece of Hadriansgolden age. It contained the skeleton of a full-grownman, a… … < oo a o oo <!f. THE LAND OF SATURN 29 campaigns, and attained great distinction. What mostimpresses the beholder of this splendid work is the har-monious distribution of the groups, the exquisite careof details, so artfully concealed that it does not inter-fere with the general effect of the…
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